Inktober day 7: Love

Hi!It was a possibility, i must re-read so i can talk better about this 

I’m afraid I don’t know the answer to this question, sorry. You’d be better off asking a medievalist, like @justadram, or someone who’s made a specialty of studying ladies’ retinues like @joannalannister or @goodqueenaly. All I do about Catelyn’s ladies is wonder why they don’t exist.

Though I can tell you a few little things, at least. We know that Jaime and Barristan, two knights of the Kingsguard, were part of Cersei’s honor guard on her way to King’s Landing to marry Robert. Princess Elia Martell was accompanied by the Kingsguard Gerold Hightower (and probably many others) on a journey that took her through the kingswood. Possibly to be married, possibly on some other trip between Dorne and King’s Landing, but either way Gerold was shot in the hand by Ulmer of the Kingswood Brotherhood, who then stole a kiss from Elia. (And her jewels, and a chest of gold.) Jeyne Swann and her septa, who were once kidnapped by the Kingswood Brotherhood, may have been with Elia, or maybe they were on a journey of their own.

And when Catelyn was sent by Robb on her diplomatic mission to Renly, she was accompanied by twenty Winterfell guards (including Hallis Mollen and Shadd) and five lordlings. (Wendel Manderly, Robin Flint, Lucas Blackwood, Perwyn Frey, and someone else.) That was during wartime, mind you, and probably a different mixture of lords and knights and guards would accompany a bride on her way to her new home, or a lady in general in peacetime. Note also that when Myrcella Baratheon went to Dorne for her betrothal/fostering, she was accompanied by the Kingsguard Arys Oakheart, her septa Eglantine, her handmaiden/double Rosamund Lannister, and five war galleys’ worth of the royal fleet, but again that was in wartime, in extreme conditions.